Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-15
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
An Argument Showing Feed Raising
for Stock to bs More Profitable
Than Cotton Growing.
WHIST an Over Gorge Of Cotton Seed VIII
Do-AIfalfe Growing IN Tarrant
County-stock Shipments.

Mr.. A. S. Nicholson left yesterday on
another trip to the Matador ranch.
Mr.. D. W. Davis, Pittsfield, Ohio,
eue stock breeder, is in the city with q
couple of carloads of grade and thor
oughbred Herefords and HoIstelns, which
are qusrtered st Powell's and Dulaney's
pens.
Mr.. j. S. Tettinger, the Tarrant county
stockman who last week paid the top
price for 100 Yearlings to the Matador
Company, putting up S11 around for
them, was in the city yesterday, and
speaking about his purchase said he was
sorry he hadinot bought the rest of the
bunch, for he considers yesrling stock of
the grade his are, cheaper at 81 than
tWo.year cid scrubs at So.
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A Hamilton county, Texas, correspond
ent OF the Home and Farm says, that il
stockmen will give their cows an over
gorge of cotton seed 1t will help, if not
cure, than Of creeps or stiff disease, for
he has tried it and knows of COWS that
have been cured sound aud well. Give
them sn they will eat; there is plenty Of
/ that disease in this country, but it is al
ways COWS that suckle calves. He never
saw any have it but what did suckle.
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From the report of the Fort Worth and
Denver Railway, pre-! e1ted by the presi-
dent for the year ending OCTOBER 81, 1887,
the following facts are taken: During
the year mentioned the Fort Worth and
/ made up of l25. 1913 head of cattle, 3l64
horses, IA 446 sheep, 663 hogs, making 8
total of 143, 40S animals hauled by the
road for the year, being an increase of
1901 head of stock, or 1913 carloads
over the year previous. Since the road
opened for business it has hauled 26. 576
CARS of stock or 779, 43S head.
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/ Mr.. II G. Holloway, one of Tarrant
county's able commissioners, brought to
The GAzRTTE Office for exhibition several
lunches of Alfalfa clover, grown on his
farm one and one quarter miles north of
the courthouse. The grass has been cut
twice during the season and the third crop
was again rich and luXuriant and about
ten inches long. The roots were some
three or four feet long and it is said they
Alfalfa is evidently the coming food for
Texas stock. Mr.. Holloway says! he has
been feeding 1t for some time and tluds
better results than from any other
character Of grass. About six tons PEE
frequent cuttings the grass can be saved
while young end nourishing.
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odn los In
Of all the stockmen Of Texas are now
turned upon LaSalle county, watching to
see how the feeding of beef cattle on cot
Nn-seed meal and prickly pear is going
to pan out, we trust that every one feed
ing will realize the Importance of the
situation and do the stock they feed
Justice. The outcome Is being watched
Ks1 more interest abroad than our
people imagine, and great deal
depends upon the result of the feed
ing business in this county this winter
II the stockmen here make q thorough
success of the business, their example
will be followed next winter by almost
every county in the state where the
growth of the prickly pear is sufficient to
warrant it. This will serve to lift the
sockmen out of debt and make the voca-
ton of stock raising pleasant as well IS
sprofltable one, whereas for years past it
has been drudge and no money to be
made out OF it.
"What the newspapers in this part of
the state ought to point out to the
farmers is the fact thst while they are
getting into debt raising cotton they
might oe getting rich growing corn for
stock feed"
So spoke gentleman in one OF the
hotels the other evening, and he was sup
piled with quantity OF arguments to
substantiate the proposition he enunci-
sted, some of which are given for what
they are worth:
A 900-poupd steer Is worth now &c s
pound or SIS. Thirty-fve bushels Of
corn will, at SOC, cost $40 so, and that
will put 200 pounds Of q 81 on the steer;
SO altogether your 1l00-pound corn-fed
steer costs you $2S SO. The steer
can now be sold for &c per pound, !. e.
Si4, giving q clear profit of $50 so for the
beef alone. The value Of the manure and
the bulls for hogs willI make the profit
$40 easily, all made with thirty-five
bushels of corn that could be grown On
one acre of land.
Now to Look at the cotton-growing.
Three acres of land will grow bale, year
IN and year out. The bale weighs 800
pounds, and there is clear pro fit Of &c
per pound on it. The grower makes $40
on three sores Of land where, with corn,
he might have made $40 on one acre.
1.-THE fact Is" says the gentleman, "if 8
cotton grower makes &c per pound on his
cotton he is doing extraordinarily well.
he generally comes out in debt at the END
OF the season.